Nursing Research (ALL Chapters)
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Question 1.
Research
Correct Answer: to search again and to examine carefully as in a diligent and
systematic inquiry or study that validates and refines existing knowledge and
develops a new empirical body of knowledge for a discipline or profession.
Question 2.
Nursing research
Correct Answer: is a scientific process that validates and refines existing
knowledge and generates new knowledge that directly and indirectly
influences nursing.
Question 3.
Goal of nursing
Correct Answer: an evidence based practice that promotes quality, safe, and
cost effective outcomes for patients, families, healthcare providers, and the
healthcare system.
Question 4.
Evidence-based practice
Correct Answer: evolves from the integration of the best research evidence
with clinical expertise and patients' needs and values.
Question 5.
best research evidence
Correct Answer: empirical knowledge generated fro the synthesis of quality
study findings to address a practice problem.
Question 6.
clinical expertise
Correct Answer: knowledge and skills of the healthcare professional who is
providing care
Question 7.
Components of research evidence
,Correct Answer: description, explanation, prediction, and control of
phenomena
Question 8.
Description
Correct Answer: involves identifying and understanding the nature of nursing
phenomena such as incidence and spread, cluster of symptoms, description of
individual responses, description of health promotion and illness prevention,
and determination of incidence of disease locally.
Question 9.
explanation
Correct Answer: clarifies the relationships among phenomena and identifies
possible reasons why certain events occur such as determination of
assessment data, link to diagnosis, link of causative risk factors or causes to
illness, morbidity and mortality.
Question 10.
prediction
Correct Answer: estimating the probability of a specific outcome in a given
situation such as the risk for a disease or injury in different populations,
estimating behaviors that promote health or prevent illness and prediction of
health care required bases on patient needs and values.
Question 11.
Control
Correct Answer: the ability to write a prescription to produce the desired
results also known as the ability to manipulate the situation to produce the
desired outcome.
Question 12.
History of research
Correct Answer: began with Florence Nightingale in the Crimean war and
resulted in society beginning to accept responsibility for testing public water,
improving sanitation, preventing starvation, and decreasing morbidity and
mortality rates.
Question 13.
Case Study
,Correct Answer: involves in-depth analysis and systematic description of one
patient or group of similar to promote understanding of healthcare
interventions.
Question 14.
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
Correct Answer: QSEN focused on developing the requisite knowledge, skills,
and attitude statements for each of the competencies for pre-licensure and
graduate education
Question 15.
Knowledge
Correct Answer: essential information, acquired in a variety of ways, that is
expected to be an accurate reflection of reality and is incorporated and used
to direct a person's actions.
Question 16.
Ways of acquiring knowledge
Correct Answer: traditions - beliefs based on customs and trends authority -
from persons with expertise and power to influence borrowing - appropriating
and using knowledge from other fields or practices trail and error- with this
strategy knowledge is gained by experience in uncertainty and not usually
shared personal experience - enables the nurse to cluster ideas into a
meaningful whole role modeling - by imitating the behaviors of an expert.
intuition - insight into a situation that cannot be explained logically reasoning-
processing and organizing ideas to reach conclusions. Inductive reasoning -
from the specific to the general deductive reasoning - from the general to the
specific
• Three research methods -✓✓quantitative, qualitative, and outcome research
method
Question 17.
Quantitative Research
Correct Answer: is a formal, objective, systematic process in which numerical
data are used to obtain information about the world while holding the position
that "truth" is absolute and that a single reality can be defined by careful
measurement.
Question 18.
Qualitative Research
, Correct Answer: is a systematic, subjective approach used to describe life
experiences and situations and give them meaning. This research method
evolved from the behavioral and social sciences as a method of understanding
the unique, dynamic and holistic nature of humans.
Question 19.
Descriptive research
Correct Answer: explores new areas of research and describes situations as
they exist in the world- it is quantitative
Question 20.
Correlational research
Correct Answer: examines relationships and is conducted to develop and
refine explanatory knowledge for nursing practice - it is quantitative.
Question 21.
Quasi-experimental and experimental
Correct Answer: studies that determine the effectiveness of nursing
interventions in predicting and controlling the outcomes desired for patients
and families - it is quantitative.
Question 22.
Phenomenological research
Correct Answer: is an inductive descriptive approach used to describe an
experience as it is lived by an individual. it is qualitative
Question 23.
Grounded theory research
Correct Answer: is an inductive technique used to formulate, test, and refine a
theory about a particular phenomena it is qualitative
Question 24.
Exploratory- descriptive research
Correct Answer: conducted to address an issue or prblem in need of a solution
or understanding with the intent of descirbing the topic of interest and
promoting understanding.
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Question 1.
Research
Correct Answer: to search again and to examine carefully as in a diligent and
systematic inquiry or study that validates and refines existing knowledge and
develops a new empirical body of knowledge for a discipline or profession.
Question 2.
Nursing research
Correct Answer: is a scientific process that validates and refines existing
knowledge and generates new knowledge that directly and indirectly
influences nursing.
Question 3.
Goal of nursing
Correct Answer: an evidence based practice that promotes quality, safe, and
cost effective outcomes for patients, families, healthcare providers, and the
healthcare system.
Question 4.
Evidence-based practice
Correct Answer: evolves from the integration of the best research evidence
with clinical expertise and patients' needs and values.
Question 5.
best research evidence
Correct Answer: empirical knowledge generated fro the synthesis of quality
study findings to address a practice problem.
Question 6.
clinical expertise
Correct Answer: knowledge and skills of the healthcare professional who is
providing care
Question 7.
Components of research evidence
,Correct Answer: description, explanation, prediction, and control of
phenomena
Question 8.
Description
Correct Answer: involves identifying and understanding the nature of nursing
phenomena such as incidence and spread, cluster of symptoms, description of
individual responses, description of health promotion and illness prevention,
and determination of incidence of disease locally.
Question 9.
explanation
Correct Answer: clarifies the relationships among phenomena and identifies
possible reasons why certain events occur such as determination of
assessment data, link to diagnosis, link of causative risk factors or causes to
illness, morbidity and mortality.
Question 10.
prediction
Correct Answer: estimating the probability of a specific outcome in a given
situation such as the risk for a disease or injury in different populations,
estimating behaviors that promote health or prevent illness and prediction of
health care required bases on patient needs and values.
Question 11.
Control
Correct Answer: the ability to write a prescription to produce the desired
results also known as the ability to manipulate the situation to produce the
desired outcome.
Question 12.
History of research
Correct Answer: began with Florence Nightingale in the Crimean war and
resulted in society beginning to accept responsibility for testing public water,
improving sanitation, preventing starvation, and decreasing morbidity and
mortality rates.
Question 13.
Case Study
,Correct Answer: involves in-depth analysis and systematic description of one
patient or group of similar to promote understanding of healthcare
interventions.
Question 14.
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
Correct Answer: QSEN focused on developing the requisite knowledge, skills,
and attitude statements for each of the competencies for pre-licensure and
graduate education
Question 15.
Knowledge
Correct Answer: essential information, acquired in a variety of ways, that is
expected to be an accurate reflection of reality and is incorporated and used
to direct a person's actions.
Question 16.
Ways of acquiring knowledge
Correct Answer: traditions - beliefs based on customs and trends authority -
from persons with expertise and power to influence borrowing - appropriating
and using knowledge from other fields or practices trail and error- with this
strategy knowledge is gained by experience in uncertainty and not usually
shared personal experience - enables the nurse to cluster ideas into a
meaningful whole role modeling - by imitating the behaviors of an expert.
intuition - insight into a situation that cannot be explained logically reasoning-
processing and organizing ideas to reach conclusions. Inductive reasoning -
from the specific to the general deductive reasoning - from the general to the
specific
• Three research methods -✓✓quantitative, qualitative, and outcome research
method
Question 17.
Quantitative Research
Correct Answer: is a formal, objective, systematic process in which numerical
data are used to obtain information about the world while holding the position
that "truth" is absolute and that a single reality can be defined by careful
measurement.
Question 18.
Qualitative Research
, Correct Answer: is a systematic, subjective approach used to describe life
experiences and situations and give them meaning. This research method
evolved from the behavioral and social sciences as a method of understanding
the unique, dynamic and holistic nature of humans.
Question 19.
Descriptive research
Correct Answer: explores new areas of research and describes situations as
they exist in the world- it is quantitative
Question 20.
Correlational research
Correct Answer: examines relationships and is conducted to develop and
refine explanatory knowledge for nursing practice - it is quantitative.
Question 21.
Quasi-experimental and experimental
Correct Answer: studies that determine the effectiveness of nursing
interventions in predicting and controlling the outcomes desired for patients
and families - it is quantitative.
Question 22.
Phenomenological research
Correct Answer: is an inductive descriptive approach used to describe an
experience as it is lived by an individual. it is qualitative
Question 23.
Grounded theory research
Correct Answer: is an inductive technique used to formulate, test, and refine a
theory about a particular phenomena it is qualitative
Question 24.
Exploratory- descriptive research
Correct Answer: conducted to address an issue or prblem in need of a solution
or understanding with the intent of descirbing the topic of interest and
promoting understanding.
